[ardour-users] sync problem

[Hector Centeno-Garcia]

Thank you Paul for the explanation. Yes, it would be nice to have the 
option to disable sending the record command when using MMC.


Hector.

Paul Davis wrote:

>On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 16:35 -0500, Hector Centeno-Garcia wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>Yesterday I was trying to sync ardour and an AKAI MPC 1000 using first 
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>the MPC doesn't slave to MTC as far as i know. it can use MIDI Clock
>and/or MIDI Song Position Pointer. Ardour doesn't generate or response
>to either of these message types (yet). This is because of its root in a
>studio environment rather than a music-production environment - the
>class of devices i was interested in sync-ing with handle MTC better or
>instead of these other types of signals (and note, they are not a
>replacement for MTC, or vice versa)
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>>had to manually set the location on the MPC). Also we found that when 
>>ardour was set to record the MPC was also set to record so it wasn't 
>>possible to record in ardour without erasing something in the MPC. 
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>its likely that if you ask ardour to send MMC, it will send Record-
>Enable message with the "ID" field set to "all". not sure what cubase
>does. maybe it doesn't bother to send RecordEnable at all, for this very
>reason. the behaviour should be configurable, i suppose.
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>>wondering what is the purpose of the "Trace input" and "Trace output" 
>>buttons and the tree diamonds in front of them and labeled MTC MMC and 
>>MIDI Parameter Control. Are they supposed to blink when there is a sync 
>>signal detected? They always remain lit in red. Bellow those there is a 
>>list of options and I'm not sure if the one that says "MMC control" 
>>means "receive MMC control" as there is another one that says "send MMC 
>>control".
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>the trace control whether or not ardour prints a text trace of all MIDI
>i/o to its standard error output. nothing more or less.
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